For a pre-computer and video-game kid, there was no place more magical than an arcade.
I still can remember the first I ever visited. It was in Ocean City, Maryland, where my aunt and uncle had a summer home. The arcade also had a Ferris wheel - indoors. Hey, I was five. I recall my favorite arcade game, too. You used a periscope to sink battleships with torpedos. Crescent and Rocky Point parks both had the game, and it was a rare treat to drop my quarter (Okay, Dad's quarter) in the slot when I visited either's Rhode Island-shore home for a day of fun and fantasy.
Well, they say you can't go home again, and both of the aforementioned parks have bitten the dust of progress. But you can play that game today, and even more astonishingly it'll still cost you all of a quarter.
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